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| SPIT & Kentucky Fried Penguin: the fun of Dispatches in Roleplay; or how fast food leads to internnment camps and a secret shiny | |
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| Topic Started: Thu Dec 14, 2017 2:32 pm (185 Views) | |
| Volaworand | Thu Dec 14, 2017 2:32 pm Post #1 |
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Hi folks! I started playing NationStates a couple months ago (I just responded to my 250th issue tonight, TYVM) and have fallen in love with dispatch writing. I try write one every day, just to make my nation feel like it's a living breathing place. I play the Dominion of [nation]Volaworand[/nation], the former British Antarctic Territory, and was lucky enough to spawn in [region]the South Pacific[/region] and have been having a blast with the community here. Something you need to know about the South Pacific, we are passionate about our regional drink, South Pacific Iced Tea, or SPIT as we call it. Every nation has their own interpretation of SPIT, and new players and vistors are normally welcomed by being passed a glass of SPIT. About a month ago I wrote up a little dispatch creating a fast food chain, Kentucky Fried Penguin (KFP) in my nation, just to add a bit of fun and flavor to my dispatches. and it gave me something silly to chit chat about in our RMB. I like silly and fun. Then [nation]Aumeltopia[/nation] a long time TSP nation (and highly skilled graphic designer) posted a dispatch about launching a new logo for their SPIT company, I decided to that Volaworandian SPIT would be bottled and exported thru my fast food chain so KFP, using another Antarctic Ice export company I dispatched about. KFP was taking SPIT global. I opened a clumsy little store front on the Global Economics and Trade forum. People responded and I and got a great response. Shameless KFP Franchise Advertising! But more surprising to me, KFP has allowed me to spring board my role-play in ways I never, ever expected. Little did I know that the passion for SPIT would lead to competing SPIT advertising campaigns (similar to the Cola wars) with KFP press releases announcing their "the Joy of SPIT" spots, studies released by my nations university showing the dangers of drinking foreign SPIT, SPIT riots, police crackdowns, rising military tensions, more ads, a 20+ nation multilateral treaty I lovingly called SPaRTA (the South Pacific Regional Trade Agreement to normalize the production and trade of South Pacific Iced Tea in the South Pacific) and random silly RMB and dispatch fun. And then I started exploring some darker themes. I love playing with how KFP and the SPIT storylines have allowed me to explore how national SPIT pride and a plucky little restaurant chain gave rise to dangerous nationalist xenophobia within my country, with a "Volaworand First" and "Tropicals OUT" faction gaining traction by using the escalating SPIT trade tensions for their own ends. Tiki bars have been vandalized, pineapples are seen as a foreign food undermining our values, and it only getting worse. This has allowed me to have my nation struggle through student protests of a "Tropical" northern centered humanities class, the Faraday Tea Party, where imported shipments of South Pacific Iced Tea were thrown in the harbor by angry mobs, violent protest movements and crackdowns, the use of "anti-terrorism" legislation on domestic protestors, and a racist, anti-foreigner, police brutality problem. Dealing with the darker sides of nationalism in a democracy as "Anti-tropical" hatred and violence increased. Refugee's we took in have been embraced, harassed, and attacked with pepper spray and during a war, the enactment of a War Measures Act declaring them "Enemy Aliens", sending them to interment camps, their families torn apart and properties seized. With an election campaign raging, Prime Minster Hovland's LSD (Liberal Social Democrat) coalition government struggles to gain the libertarian vote by drastically slashing taxes and government spending, losing support on her left flank. How far a one-off silly little dispatch about a fast food chain has taken me. KFP has been a way to let me play out issues that show my nation warts and all. The good, the bad, and the downright ugly. Through it all, KFP has continued to grow and develop, even adding SPIT from Aumeltopia to the menu (Available as "SPIT classic"), always trying to stay relevant by releasing advertising and promotions that try to capitalize on the issues it sparked, though it did have to withdraw the Kylie Jenner the Joy of Unity" spot after critics felt that it trivialized police brutality and protest movements. KFP has supported reforestation efforts, hosted fundraisers, announced new openings, and expanded formats and expanded the menu... get your Kids SNOT meal with a free Pokémon toy today! So sit back, relax with a cool SPIT and browse the past months news about KFP, SPIT and some related international news dispatches from around [region]The South Pacific[/region]. I would love idea's about how KFP can innovate and grow, or talk how your nation and regions use dispatches in your role play? The dispatch saga of SPIT, Kentucky Fried Penguin and Volaworand's descent to the dark side
Edited by Volaworand, Fri Dec 15, 2017 9:10 am.
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| Volaworand | Fri Dec 15, 2017 7:55 am Post #2 |
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If you managed to read down this far, you deserve a secret little shiny! Posted Image
Edited by Volaworand, Fri Dec 15, 2017 7:57 am.
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| Mount Seymour | Fri Dec 15, 2017 3:19 pm Post #3 |
Forest + TSP
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Am I allowed to edit that to "I drank SPIT... from Aumeltopia" :P |
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| Volaworand | Fri Dec 15, 2017 9:17 pm Post #4 |
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LOL! I was thinking you would make an Aumeltopian SPIT thread :-) Edited by Volaworand, Fri Dec 15, 2017 9:18 pm.
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| Seraph | Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:11 pm Post #5 |
Minister of Regional Affairs of the South Pacific
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It was suggested. *nudges Mount Seymour* |
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| Volaworand | Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:37 pm Post #6 |
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KFP is happy to help out the Aumeltopian SPIT® Company! We know all those SPIT Classic drinkers would like a badge too! Posted Image
Edited by Volaworand, Sat Dec 16, 2017 12:11 am.
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| The Sands Casino | Sat Dec 16, 2017 7:13 pm Post #7 |
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Great reading, and great badges! Thanks! |
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| Volaworand | Sun Dec 17, 2017 10:26 am Post #8 |
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TSP SPIT dealer
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Internment Camps slow to close following end of war Posted Image Irene, a second generation Midand-Volaworandian, was born in Faraday where her father, who immigrated from Midand in the early 2000s, had a shoe repair shop. Irene's life was that of any teenager with typical girlish hues, with public school and figure skating lessons that her mother enrolled her in, instead of ballet. But life's daily routine was shattered when the South Pacific Cold broke out and her homeland declared war on Volaworand. Within hours the Volaworandian federal government used the War Measures Act to order the internment of all residents of Midand descent, citizen and non-citizen, within the nation. At the time, the government claimed that they were "Enemy Aliens" and were being removed for reasons of "national security." The removal order, however, was opposed by Volaworand's senior military and police officers who said that they posed no threat to security. No Midand-Volaworandian was ever charged with disloyalty to Volaworand. The government insisted they posed an acute threat to national security and ordered 322,579 people into 6 interment camps. The evacuation was huge and heart-breaking. Over 320,000 men, women and children of Midand ancestry were removed from their homes. They were processed and shipped to detention camps in the interior, or to mining and ice export operations. Others were sent to far-flung parts of the nation, when human rights groups say they were used as human shields or made to work in ice bunker construction. Allowed only to take a few essential possessions, Irene and her family were moved to the relocation community of Marambio, ironicly, home to one of the two original refugee camps Volaworand built to welcome refugee's fleeing an earlier war in Midand. It became a city of almost 200,000 "enemy aliens", where residents lived in tar paper shacks and apartments that were more like barns, and shared by two or three families. Irene's parents thinks the experience was probably more traumatic for them than for her; as a teenager, she was able to make even such a horrendous situation into an adventure. She made friends, kept a routine with school, and her first teenage budding crush. For her father, who has asked the family not to be named, it was humiliating. He worked since his early 20's to build a new life for himself in Volaworand. His years of labour are now reduced to nothing, erased, when the federal government sold off all Midand-Volaworandian-owned property: homes, fishing boats, businesses and personal property at bargain basement prices. What is even worse, the government then deducted the proceeds of these sell-offs to pay for any welfare received by the owner while unemployed in a detention camp. Irene's father was keenly aware of his net worth -- he had a residence, a small hotel and two other pieces of property totaling around £32,000. When the Security Commission sold it all and sent him the paltry £312 cheque, he says it was the first time he cried in front of his children. Many Volaworandians are very much dismayed, if not shocked, at the federal government's treatment of the citizens and residents of Midand descent. People reached out, often through Volaworand-Aumeltopia Public Affairs Council or other tropical immigrant communities, to help the Midand in whatever way they could. Winifred Awmack was among those who went to teach at internment schools. Winifred was asked to teach high school because the government was only providing public school education at the internment camps. It was here that Winifred Awmack met Irene as her student. Awmack felt that if the children didn't have a high school education they would always be second class citizens. And so, despite the lack of facilities, a curriculum was set up designed not only to educate, but to comfort and to strengthen students emotionally bruised by being considered enemy aliens by their country of birth. Each Saturday, for example, the school was broken into small groups to discuss any problems or confusions. Many students probably weren't able to communicate their feelings to their parents. The school sessions gave them a chance to express their anxieties, share the burden and to keep hope that there would be a better life after Marambio. Posted Image When the news came that the war had ended, many thought this might be the end of the camps and time at last to return to regular communities. The school kids at Marambio declared it a holiday and celebrated with a hike into the mountains. But it soon became apparent that things were going be very slow to return to normal. The politicians who had pushed for the internment were still determined to keep them out of their communities. As a result, even today, their choices for post-war freedom are limited. They can stay in Volaworand, but can not vote in next months election which will decide their future. And for Irene's family, like many others, they have no homes to which they can return. Midand has closed borders and refuses repatriation. Irene's parents lost their Volaworandian citizenship. They have lost their property, and gallingly, still have to pay the government housing fee's at the camp. Irene's father is at a loss. Government officials have pledged to shut down the camps, and say it will have found homes for all residents by February. That is tragically too late for Irene. Irene, the happy and bright eye'd light of her fathers life, died yesterday. In an effort to keep warm, Irene had moved a latern underneath her bed. She perished in the fire that swept through the camp, along with 42 others. Our paper pledges that we will ask every politician running in this election one simple question: "Why did Irene die?" -Volaworand Newswire Edited by Volaworand, Sun Dec 17, 2017 10:29 am.
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| Volaworand | Mon Dec 18, 2017 6:00 pm Post #9 |
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Court upholds KFP team dismissal after massive food loss The concept of “team misconduct” has been thrown into the spotlight with a Palmer Land Provincial Court finding that it was lawful to fire 11 people working on the same shift at a local Kentucky Fried Penguin outlet because of “astonishing” stock losses. Posted Image Their dismissal followed the loss of 245 pieces of food and 63kg of chips in just three days. Previously, in just two shifts, 424 cans of SPIT and 518 cans of juice had disappeared. But no-one would admit to seeing anything or having anything to do with the theft. In his recent judgment Judge Harv Patel said Kentucky Fried Penguin #008 Sky Blu, had hired the staff members in October 2014 in various capacities, such as cooks, “expeditors” and cashiers to work the late shift from 3pm until 10 pm. The stock losses began immediately and management tried to curtail this by locking the freezers, storerooms, the interlinking door at the drive-through section and the walk-in coolers. A security guard was hired to patrol the double-storey restaurant and to search employees’ bags, CCTV cameras were installed in various sections, and a new computer system was installed to capture all activities at the till. Employees were warned that there was a “zero tolerance” policy towards theft and they were responsible for the stock during their shift. But the stock losses costing between £1500 and £2000 a month continued unabated. New supervisors and managers were hired and even more stock handling measures implemented. But, KFP said, it could not constantly keep an eye on everyone, the storerooms and all the fridges. Once, through CCTV footage, it identified two cashiers failing to ring up certain items, but going through all the footage to check on every cashier was an “impossible task”, the company said. Hundreds of cold SPIT, juices and pieces of food were going missing on single shifts - always when the same team was working. In January 2014, employees were again warned that disciplinary action would be taken if the theft did not stop and, after monitoring losses over three days, the employees were called in and given an opportunity to give information. None took up the offer. A disciplinary inquiry was held, they were all dismissed and the problem with stock was immediately resolved. But the employees went to the Provincial Labour Board where a commissioner ruled their dismissal to be unfair, saying the company had not proved they were responsible for the theft, or knew who was. He ordered the company to pay six months’ compensation to each of them. The company appealed the ruling to the Provincial Court, arguing the principle of “team misconduct”. The judge said, as with the principle of “common cause purpose”, there was no need to prove individual guilt. “It is sufficient that the individual is a member of a team which has failed to meet its obligations, in this case to ensure there were no stock losses. They were given an opportunity to come clean, but did not,” he said, setting aside the Labour Board award and ordering the former employees to pay the costs of the review application. -Volaworand Newswire |
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| Volaworand | Tue Dec 19, 2017 8:31 am Post #10 |
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Volaworand SPIT responds to market demand! https://www.nationstates.net/page=poll/p=106856 it appears "SPIT in a Lampshade" is the most popular choice, followed by "Volaworandian SPIT", and a tie in third between "Classic SPIT" and "SPIT that is 100% vegan, organic, gluten free, lactose free, cruelty free, oil free, and everything" In response this valuable market research, VWP has introduced a kids SPIT line, All-Natural Penguin SPIT™ Cocktails, in penguin drink boxes, with a new cartoon mascot, 'Joe Penguin'. "With All-Natural Penguin SPIT™ Cocktails, we will change the SPIT experience altogether. Our newest cartoon mascot 'Joe Penguin' will connect with and engage the underserved youth SPIT market. This lower alcohol SPIT is 100% vegan, organic, gluten free, lactose free, cruelty free, oil free, and everything!. It is kid-friendly and the packaging is fun and engaging. Penguin SPIT is an amazing innovation that not only protects your drink from spills but also keeps it safe on the go, making it perfect for kids lunches. Whether you are going to class or to a nightclub, Penguin SPIT will be your companion to keep you drunk on the go." (see company press release]) Research into lampshade SPIT delivery is occurring at a frantic pace. Stay tuned! 'Joe Penguin' markets All-Natural Penguin SPIT Cocktails to children The "Volaworandian SPIT" and "Melted Snowman!" Beverage marker Volaworand Water Products introduces All-Natural Penguin SPIT™ Cocktails to kids across the South Pacific. Posted Image Vagn Andersen, VWP's Managing Director is visibly excited. "With All-Natural Penguin SPIT™ Cocktails, we will change the SPIT experience altogether. Our newest cartoon mascot 'Joe Penguin' will connect with and engage the underserved youth SPIT market. This lower alcohol SPIT is 100% vegan, organic, gluten free, lactose free, cruelty free, oil free, and everything!. It is kid-friendly and the packaging is fun and engaging. Penguin SPIT is an amazing innovation that not only protects your drink from spills but also keeps it safe on the go, making it perfect for kids lunches. Whether you are going to class or to a nightclub, Penguin SPIT will be your companion to keep you drunk on the go." Moms will love that All-Natural Penguin SPIT™ Cocktails are made from all-natural fruit juice, triple filtered alcohols and 100% organic agave nectar. All-Natural Penguin SPIT™ Cocktails are an exciting new alternative to traditional SPIT. The Volaworand based brand features six incredibly fresh flavors, crafted with all-natural ingredients like fresh key lime, zesty lemon, ruby red grapefruit, 100% organic agave nectar and real fruit juices. In addition to being delightfully delicious, each flavor boasts of only 169 calories! Posted Image Penguin SPIT™ mascot Joe Penguin All-Natural Penguin SPIT™ Cocktails are committed to never using high fructose corn syrup, added sugars, fake sweeteners, or artificial colors or flavors. They were born out of the idea that there had to be a way to let children to enjoy a well-crafted SPIT. Penguin SPIT™ flavors to date include the classic Top-Shelf Margarita, Ruby Red Grapefruit, Spicy and Hot Chili Pepper, Cumber Mint, Moscow Mule, and Mojito and are available in 250ml and 1-liter tetra packs. - Volaworand Newswire Edited by Volaworand, Tue Dec 19, 2017 8:34 am.
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| Volaworand | Fri Dec 22, 2017 11:58 am Post #11 |
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so we are trying to "brew up" a SPIT themed space race... any idea's? |
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